noun. The head or uppermost member of anything.

noun. In fortification, the line which bisects the salient angle of a ravelin.

noun. The head of a still, a chimney, etc.

Relating to the head; situated on the head.

Used at the head or beginning, as of a sentence, line, or word. See capital letters, below.

Affecting the head or life; incurring or involving the forfeiture of life; punishable with death: as, treason and murder are capital offenses or crimes; hence, fatal; most serious: as, a capital mistake.

First in importance; chief; principal.

Very good; excellent; first-class: as, a capital singer or player; a capital dinner; a capital fellow.

Syn. 4. Leading, prominent, important, essential.

Prime, splendid, perfect.

noun. The city or town which is the official seat of government in a country, state, or province, or of justice in a county.

noun. A capital letter (which see, under I.). Abbreviated cap.

To furnish or crown with a capital, as a pillar or column.

noun. In political economics, that part of the produce of industry which, in the form either of national or of individual wealth, is available for further production; an accumulation of the products of past labor capable of being used in the support of present or future labor.

noun. Specifically, the wealth employed in carrying on a particular trade, manufacture, business, or undertaking; stock in trade; the actual estate, whether in money or property, which is owned and employed by an individual, firm, or corporation in business.

noun. Figuratively, productive resources of any kind, whether physical or moral; means of influence or of increasing one's power.

noun. A chapter or section of a book.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the head.

adjective. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death.

adjective. First in importance; chief; principal.

adjective. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.

adjective. Of first rate quality; excellent.

adjective. a leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing.

adjective. have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters.

adjective. money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution.

noun. The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and column.

noun. The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.

noun. Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.

noun. That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.

noun. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.

noun. An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

noun. A chapter, or section, of a book.

noun. See Capital letter, under Capital, a.

noun. See under Active

noun. a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.

noun. to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

noun. Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).

noun. Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.

noun. A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.

noun. The most important city in the field specified.

noun. An uppercase letter.

noun. The uppermost part of a column.

noun. Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.

adjective. of prime importance

adjective. excellent

adjective. Involving punishment by death.

adjective. uppercase

noun. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

noun. a seat of government

adjective. of primary importance

"INDEPENDENCE FOR MANZHOUGUO (Manchukuo, the “Manchu state, ” Manchuria) was proclaimed; it consisted of the former three eastern provinces and Rehe (Jehol), with a capital at Xinjing (“new capital”), formerly Changchun."